In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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